Social Distortion guitarist Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham sat down with Omaha.com to talk about the tour and the band's long-awaited follow-up to 2004's "Sex, Love And Rock 'n' Roll". You can read the interview below:
Omaha.com: Are you ready to head out on tour?
Jonny "2 Bags" Wickersham: We're rehearsed. We're a well-oiled machine. Atom [Willard], our new drummer, is killing it.
Any chance we'll hear some new songs?
We have four or five new songs that we’ve kept in the rotation. We just worked up two brand-new ones in rehearsal this week. We'll probably be playing those as well.
So does that mean we'll get a new Social D album soon?
We're going to try to go into the studio at the end of the year. We'll be having something out by early next year.
I heard chatter about you guys doing an acoustic album. Is that ever going to happen?
It's gonna happen someday. We just want to get a regular, good, solid Social D record out first.
What's it like having been in Social Distortion for 10 years?
A lot of it has been that jelling of the chemistry between us as players. It's taken a while for me to feel like I'm a part of Social D. I felt like I was an impostor in the beginning.
Have the crowds at your shows aged or changed?
When I first started playing, the band had 20 years behind them. The crowd was, at the time, a mixture of people that were our age all the way down to kids that were in their early teens.
Then, 15 to 30 was kind of the age span of the audience. Now, it's 15 to, like, 45."
Social Distortion is considered a pretty important punk band. What's it like to be a part of that?
It's been a lot of fun. I wouldn't trade it for nothing.
I don't have a college education, don't have any skills. I've done every construction trade under the sun.
My interest is in making music and playing guitar and writing songs.
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